Senior Finance Manager - Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) - 18 month contract

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Senior Finance Manager – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) Compliance

ICON plc | Dublin, Ireland | #LI‑HYBRID

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Finance Manager to join our high‑performing Group Finance Team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for driving key strategic change initiatives across financial and sustainability reporting and process improvement for Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and other evolving sustainability disclosure requirements relevant to external financial reporting.

A core deliverable of the role is the end‑to‑end preparation for reporting under the CSRD, with the first mandatory report due for FY 2027. The role will coordinate all aspects of CSRD readiness, including preparation of the sustainability report, addressing policy and control gaps, ensuring high‑quality data collection, refreshing the Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) and managing the external assurance process.

This is a cross‑functional role requiring strong project management, technical sustainability knowledge, and the ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the company’s CSRD readiness and delivery of the first FY2027 sustainability statement.
• Refresh the DMA  in line with ESRS requirements and coordinate stakeholder engagement. Ensure alignment with regulatory updates and business changes.
• Update the CSRD Policy Gap Assessment and close identified gaps. Collaborate with applicable teams to draft new policies or update policies as required.
• Address outstanding actions from the Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) and embed climate risk management across the organisation.
• Oversee the collection of the ESRS data points in Workiva including the emissions data from the environment sustainability platform (Watershed). Ensure accuracy and completeness of data while strengthening data processes and controls, documentation and audit trails with business data owners.
• Draft the annual CSRD sustainability statement and coordinate contributions across all stakeholders.
• Work closely with external advisors to ensure technical compliance, resolve complex ESRS interpretation issues and support the delivery of key workstreams such as the DMA refresh, CRA actions and policy development/ revision.
• Establish robust governance, controls, documentation, and timelines to support accurate, auditable CSRD disclosures.
• Prepare for external assurance and oversee the audit process.
• Support broader sustainability reporting requirements connected to financial reporting (e.g. EU Taxonomy disclosures and other global sustainability reporting standards)
• Support other corporate reporting and finance transformation initiatives across the group as required.

Experience & Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• 8+ year post‑qualification experience in practice or industry
• Strong knowledge of CSRD, ESRS, and EU sustainability regulations with awareness of related sustainability disclosure frameworks impacting financial reporting
• Strong understanding of financial reporting, governance, and control frameworks with experience drafting sustainability or regulatory reports
• Exposure to Workiva or similar reporting platforms desirable
• Experience working with external auditors or assurance providers
• Proven experience managing complex, cross‑functional projects
• Excellent project management, senior stakeholder engagement and communication skills

What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements

• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.

• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.

• Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.

• Life assurance

• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values.   We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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